Aaaand went last night with yamikonumber7 and corrielle over to the El Capitan for the Tron midnight showing! We hung around the soda fountain most of the time, talking geek stuff and eating delicious ice cream sundaes. I was (surprisingly) able to keep up and awake the entire time, considering I'm not a night person. The laser show beforehand was a lot of fun and very shiny.


Overall, I enjoyed it! It was fun to watch; making great use of very simple shapes and colors/lights to set the scene. You can tell the production designers had fun with it. The sound was great, too...although there were parts where I couldn't understand some of the dialogue, but that may have been because we were sitting on the very far right end and that was amplifying the echo-box-like way the sound was done anyway. And I want the soundtrack now, aaaah. I have a big weakness for techno.

Random thoughts and questions from the movie:

- I thought it was interesting the way our perception of computers/technology has changed, and how that was reflected in Legacy. The upgraded world was a lot smoother, faster and more versatile, but also a lot more breakable. Compare that to the original Tron, where everything was boxier and slower, but very sturdy.
- Yes, the lightcycle sequences were still awesome.
- I liked the way they showed the "bodies" of the programs...that they moved and behaved exactly like humans, but when you start to damage them you can see how they're made up of computer bits.
- Speaking of...I wished we could've seen a bit. :( I liked those from the original Tron. Maybe the system got too complex for individual bits to do anything.
- Teeeee, Daft Punk as the DJs. XD
- I liked Quorra a lot more than I thought I would. She had a lot of spine and spunk.
- I enjoyed quite a few of the callbacks to the original film. "Now that is a big door!"
- Okay um...I'll admit I'm a little confused as to what exactly the Isos were. I know they were a big damn deal because it was like...self-creating code? Code that grew souls? It sounded like I needed to know math stuff to fully understand it, and I fail at math. D: Any computer science people out there know whether or not the Isos are based on some real world thing?
- I know the point of the movie was to keep this from happening, but I really wanted to see what WOULD have happened if Clu or any of his crew actually got into meatspace.
- Wait! What about Edward Dillinger?! I thought he'd come back into play at some point, because dude, it's the son of the bad guy in the last film! And he has a killfile or something! I thought we'd at least see another program with his face, but we didn't. D: That was kind of left hanging.
- OKAY I WAS RATHER DISAPPOINTED AT THE LACK OF MORE TRON. D: I guess the original was more about Flynn than about Tron too, but Tron was hardly in this at all except for the flashback where he sacrifices himself to save Flynn! Although due to rumors I suspected all along that Rizler = Corrupt!Tron, especially with that familiar pattern on his suit.
- HAHAHA OKAY SPEAKING OF THAT. Pretty much every time Rizler was onscreen I was getting VANITAS VANITAS VANITAS vibes. And then it turned out that it pretty much was Tron!Vanitas. Tronitas. If he had taken off the helmet ever and had black hair and yellow eyes I would've screamed and died. And he was Clu's greatest warrior ever who was hidden in a mask and all in red and black...TRONITAS.
- Everyone in the theater cheered when Tronitas Tron went in and saved the users anyway, and then turned good. ...BUT THEN WE DON'T SEE WHAT HAPPENS TO HIM THEN. NNNNNGH. I SEE THAT SEQUEL HOOK BEHIND THAT TRON-FLAVORED BAIT, DISNEY. 8|


OMG I WANT THIS *_* Except for the fact that it's like $200 what even

And now it's time to go decorate the tree with little bro...

Drawing: More of the same

Writing: Hmmm...